Effective - 10 May 1978
267.250. Enforcement of rules, regulations — notification to county commission — sheriff to assist. — 1. The governor, when informed by the state veterinarian that contagious or infectious livestock disease has become largely disseminated or epidemic among domestic animals throughout any municipality or geographical district in this state, or is found to exist in any herd or herds in this state, may call the director of agriculture and the state veterinarian together, and said director and said veterinarian shall, if deemed necessary to eradicate or prevent the spread of such disease, formulate for the state veterinarian and the county commissions rules and regulations under which stock capable of carrying said diseases, or any of them, shall be permitted to move to other parts of the state; such rules and regulations shall be subject to the approval of the governor, who thereupon shall issue his proclamation scheduling and quarantining such localities, and forbidding the carrying or transportation or moving of all domestic animals of the kind diseased from such municipalities or district or county to another, or from one premises to another, or over any public highway or any lot or ground not sufficiently fenced to prevent animals from going through or from being brought into such infected districts, municipalities or counties except in accordance with the aforesaid rules and regulations.
2. The county commission or other legally substituted court of the county in which such infected locality or district shall have been quarantined by the governor, shall be notified by the state veterinarian, and furnished with copies of said regulations. Said county commission shall thereupon comply with said rules and regulations, and issue order to the sheriff to assist said state veterinarian in carrying out the provisions of the same.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14207, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1816)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12536; 1919 § 12095; 1909 § 718
Effective 5-10-78
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals
Chapter 267 - State Veterinarian — Diseased Animals
Section 267.010 - Definitions.
Section 267.020 - Appointment of veterinary surgeon — qualifications — tenure.
Section 267.030 - Veterinarian — oath, bond — office — duties.
Section 267.040 - Under control of director.
Section 267.050 - Appointment of deputy veterinary surgeon — qualifications.
Section 267.060 - Compensation of veterinarian and deputies.
Section 267.070 - Cooperate with federal officers.
Section 267.080 - Report to director.
Section 267.090 - Compilation of information and report.
Section 267.100 - Petition for veterinarian's services to control contagious disease.
Section 267.110 - Veterinarian to investigate on petition.
Section 267.120 - Prescribe disinfectants — enforcement.
Section 267.169 - Certain livestock data not subject to disclosure — exceptions.
Section 267.170 - Indemnification — appraisal — payment.
Section 267.210 - Disposition of condemned cattle.
Section 267.220 - Reactor animals may be retained, procedure.
Section 267.240 - Governor — approval and enforcement of quarantine regulations.
Section 267.380 - State veterinarian may enter to conduct tests — owner to cooperate.
Section 267.400 - Veterinarian to make and enforce regulations.
Section 267.430 - Diseased animals — sale or running at large prohibited.
Section 267.450 - Unquarantined stock in quarantined pens prohibited.
Section 267.560 - Title of law.
Section 267.565 - Definitions.
Section 267.575 - Health certificates, contents, duration — inspection and testing, authority.
Section 267.580 - Permits, requests for contents, duration.
Section 267.585 - Carriers of livestock, regulations.
Section 267.590 - Quarantine of animal or herd by state veterinarian — duration.
Section 267.595 - Quarantine of area, notice, effect — procedure.
Section 267.604 - Injunction against owners of diseased livestock, when — venue.
Section 267.611 - Slaughter of animals, indemnification — accounting.
Section 267.615 - License for male breeding animals, application, fee, renewal.
Section 267.620 - Artificial insemination, license for production of semen, fee, renewal.
Section 267.625 - Bovine breeding males to be tested and vaccinated.
Section 267.630 - Law inapplicable to loan between breeders.
Section 267.635 - Revocation of licenses for violations.
Section 267.640 - Certification of disease free herds or flocks, when — cancellation.
Section 267.645 - Department may enter premises — rules and regulations.
Section 267.650 - Animals impounded when, costs paid by owner — redemption.
Section 267.655 - Civil penalties.
Section 267.660 - Violation, a misdemeanor.
Section 267.670 - Definitions.
Section 267.673 - Sheep and goats to be dipped, when.
Section 267.677 - Identification marks on dipped sheep and goats.
Section 267.680 - Markets and dealers to provide dipping facilities — records to be kept.
Section 267.683 - Animals may be sold for slaughter without dipping, when.
Section 267.687 - Infected sheep, goats or cattle, how treated — quarantine — moved, when.
Section 267.690 - Exposed animals released for slaughter, when.
Section 267.693 - Exposed animals quarantined — consignment for slaughter.
Section 267.697 - Sheep or goats deemed exposed, when.
Section 267.700 - All animals in group classed as infected or exposed, when.
Section 267.703 - Infected or exposed animals not to be moved.
Section 267.707 - County certified as "scabies free area", when.
Section 267.710 - Entrance of sheep or goats from noncertified to certified areas.
Section 267.713 - Importation of sheep or goats for breeding or feeding, regulations.
Section 267.717 - Registration of sheep shearers — duties.
Section 267.720 - Dealer registration — inspection of premises.
Section 267.723 - Rules and regulations.